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10 Dec 2016 12:51:18am

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Like much of positive psychology curiosity is mostly hype. Some of the things that Mr Kashdan fails to tell you are: 1. There are no proven curiosity strategies - probably because its a trait2. Most of his research on curiosity are on lab rats (psych students) so its probably not relevant in the real world3. There are down sides to curiosity - his own rsearch shows that highly curious people are narcissistic.

In general anyone who claims to have the answer should be viewed with scepticism

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